Gary Oldman in “Slow Horses” Season 5.
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Gary Oldman’s detective drama Slow Horses is back on Apple TV+ with Season 5. When will new episodes be released?
Also starring Jack Lowden and Kristin Scott Thomas, Slow Horses — which is based on author Mick Herron’s best-selling Slough House spy novels — follows Jackson Lamb (Oldman), who heads a MI5 unit that includes disgraced fellow agents.
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The logline for Season 5 reads, “Everyone is suspicious when resident tech nerd Roddy Ho has a glamorous new girlfriend, but when a series of increasingly bizarre events occur across the city, it falls to the Slow Horses to work out how everything is connected. After all, Lamb knows that in the world of espionage, the London Rules — cover your back — always apply.”
Slow Horses Season 5 also stars Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Ruth Bradley, James Callis and Tom Brooke, and features Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso) as a guest star.
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Slow Horses Season 5 kicked off on Wednesday on Apple TV+ with Episodes 1 and 2. The season consists of six episodes overall. Below are the release dates for Season 5. New episodes for Slow Horses Season 5 begin at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on Wednesdays.
Sept 24: Episode 1 — Bad Dates
Sept 24: Episode 2 — Incommunicado
Oct. 1: Episode 3 — Tall Tales
Oct. 8: Episode 4 — Missiles
Oct. 15: Episode 5 — Circus
Oct. 22: Episode 6 — Scars
How Are Rotten Tomatoes Critics Reacting To ‘Slow Horses’ Season 5?
As of Wednesday, Slow Horses has received a 94% “fresh” rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics based on 13 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus, Popcornmeter score and audience summary are still pending.
Tim Lowery of AV Club is among the top critics on RT who gives Season 5 of Slow Horses a “fresh” rating, writing, “This many seasons in, the show needs to do some of this maneuvering so as not to drive home the same central characters’ issues and burn out… But that doesn’t make any of this less delightful to watch, maybe just less fulfilling.”
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Anita Singh of the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph is also high on the show’s fifth outing, writing in her RT review summary, “Slow Horses is unusual: a long-running show that hasn’t had a drop-off in quality. There is a supreme sense of confidence about the way it is put together.”
Nick De Semlyen of Empire Magazine also gives Slow Horses Season 5 a “fresh” rating on RT, writing, “The Slough House screw-ups continue to entertain, even though this particular story’s mix of intensity and comedy doesn’t always gel.”
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The only “rotten” review of Slow Horses from a top critic on RT comes from Nick Schager of The Daily Beast, who writes, “Its slovenly, sarcastic personalities still carry the day, but with its comedy veering into cartoonishness, it proves a wobbly return engagement.”
Slow Horses Season 5, Episodes 1 and 2, are new on Apple TV+.
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